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  1. 16. Articulable Humanity : Narrative Ethics in Nuruddin Farah's Trilogies

    Författare :Hilda Härgestam Strandberg; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Annie Gagiano; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; African literature; Nuruddin Farah; narrative ethics; ethical criticism; precariousness; vulnerability; human dignity; Emmanuel Lévinas; Adriana Cavarero; Judith Butler; postcolonial theory; feminism.; engelska; English;

    Sammanfattning : Fokus för avhandlingen, Att uttrycka det mänskliga: narrativ etik i Nuruddin Farah’s trilogier, är de nio romaner publicerade mellan 1979 och 2011 som tillsammans utgör Nuruddin Farah’s tre trilogier: ”Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship,” bestående av Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981), Close Sesame (1983); “Blood in the Sun,” bestående av Maps (1986), Gifts (1993), Secrets (1998); samt “Past Imperfect,” bestående av Links (2003), Knots (2007), Crossbones (2011). Tematiska och stilistiska skillnader till trots så är dessa trilogier och romaner märkbart sammanhängande i sitt fokus. LÄS MER

  3. 17. “Swarming European Consciousness” : Europe and Tradition in the Work of William Carlos Williams

    Författare :Elin Käck; Carin Franzén; Hélène Aji; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American poetry; William Carlos Williams; Euro-American relationship; Europe; tradition; recontextualization; hegemony; counterhegemonic; modernism; Amerikansk poesi; William Carlos Williams; den euro-amerikanska relationen; Europa; traditionen; rekontextualisering; hegemoni; kontrahegemonisk; modernism;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on how the American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) deals with Europe and tradition in works published between 1917 and 1928 and in unpublished material from the same period. Poems from Al Que Quiere! (1917), Sour Grapes (1921), Kora in Hell (1920) and Spring and All (1923) as well as The Great American Novel (1923) and A Voyage to Pagany (1928) constitute the core of the material. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing

    Författare :Jenny Siméus; Maria Olaussen; Stefan Helgesson; Meg Samuelson; Ashleigh Harris; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antjie Krog; collaborative autobiography; collaborative life writing; Elsa Joubert; Jonathan Morgan; Kopano Ratele; Margaret McCord; multivoiced life writing; Nosisi Mpolweni; selfhood; South Africa; Zoë Wicomb; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Syntaktisk variation och förändring : en studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska

    Författare :David Håkansson; Christer Platzack; Tor Anders Åfarli; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diachronic syntax; syntactic change; language variation; Old Swedish; referential subjects; null subjects; word order; information structure; verbal agreement; quantitative analysis; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk; information structure; word order; null subjects; referential subjects; Old Swedish; language variation; diachronic syntax; syntactic change; verbal agreement; quantitative analysis;

    Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is subjectless clauses in Old Swedish (1225–1526). The thesis focuses on referential subjects, and addresses the problem of why the possibilities to leave out such subjects have been reduced during the history of Swedish. The dissertation consists of three main parts, divided into eight chapters. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Ris, skäver och skärva : Folklig kategorisering av några barnsjukdomar ur ett kognitivt semantiskt perspektiv

    Författare :Asbjörg Westum; Lars-Erik Edlund; Gunilla Byrman; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages; Swedish dialects; cognitive semantics; folk categorization of illnesses; Idealized Cognitive Models; radial structure; concentrating structure; folk etiology; word formation; dialekter; barnsjukdomar; folkmedicin; Dialectology; Dialektforskning; Etnologi; Ethnology; Folklore; Folkloristik; Scandinavian languages; Scandinavian Languages; Swedish;

    Sammanfattning : In Swedish dialects we find the terms ris,skäver and skärva referring to illnesses in children. The words are also parts of various compounds which refer to variants of the illnesses. The terms are linguistic expressions denoting two folk categories of illnesses, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA. LÄS MER